Virtualize Tier 1 Applications Faster

Accelerate virtualization of business critical applications by increasing visibility and control across application tiers, improving storage I/O performance and availability and unifying backup and recovery across physical and virtual domains – all while maintaining security and compliance you can trust.

This paper explains how organizations can overcome the barrier to virtualization of mission-critical applications with ApplicationHA. ApplicationHA opens the floodgates for migration of Tier 1 mission-critical applications to virtual environments.

The development and validation of these solutions follows industry-standard enterprise architecture development methods, as defined by The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), to accelerate adoption into your production environment. Documented best practices help increase the business value and return on investment from Symantec virtualization server software to effectively accelerate next phase deployments of virtualization initiatives. Architectures within this series include Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and Sharepoint.

Reference architectures include these Symantec products to help you protect and manage your virtual applications for:

ApplicationHA provides high availability for business-critical applications through unique application visibility and control by integrating with VMware HA, vMotion, and Site Recovery Manager to manage and monitor hundreds of applications’ health through VMware vCenter.

Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware is integrated into VMware vCenter to improve storage I/O performance and availability for VMware ESX attached storage, reroute I/Os to available data paths in the event of a failure and automatically restore failed paths that become healthy.

Backup Exec delivers powerful and reliable backup and recovery for virtual and physical environments. It includes integrated high speed data deduplication in a single award winning solution designed for small to medium sized businesses and remote offices.

Symantec Workspace Virtualization simplifies application packaging and delivery, reduces application conflicts and testing requirements, and makes it possible to run incompatible applications at the same time. Workspace Virtualization helps IT organizations improve management and control over endpoints to reduce the total cost of ownership of laptops and desktops.